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So I was not really in mayhem.^[1] I did not really correspond with him except for one letter. And I lived about 500 km away. So why did I have anything to do with Euronymous to begin with? Let's find out. And what most people seem to just gloss over is the fact that Euronymous had a record company. And when I talked briefly to him in December 1991, I told him that I had a demo tape. He asked me to send it to him. I did. And he wanted to release it on his label. When he asked me to help him fund the production of the album. All the warning lights should have come on, right? But I was young, I was naive. And I had just, you know, acquired a deal with a record company. I was thrilled. When I recorded the debut album for Burzum in the January 1992 he came over to Bergen. And this, incidentally, is why there we had a photo session together in Bergen that time. I can show you the pictures from that. Have you ever wondered where these images were taken?^[2][3] And mind you, he came over as the record company, being present during the recording of an album that his company was going to release. That's why I was there. I didn't really know the guy, but Harold did, you know, Harold from Immortal. So he was with us pretty much most of the time. And including in that photo, Session. He took all those pictures. And when we, for some reason, I don't remember why, but we dropped by my mother's place, and when we did, Euronymous took off his jacket for the first time. Uh, and, yeah, he wore this. And that should have been the second warning light that I should have seen. My mother, who saw that, looked like she was about to throw up. And she was not very positive, so to speak. But I was naive and I didn't heed her warnings. And, you know, I was just a young 18 year old boy with a record deal. So I financed the production and I think also the printing of that album. And it was printed in 500 CDs and 500 LPs, and it sold really well. Burzum was actually a very popular band in the underground scene, so everything is relative, mind you. And he sold that really quickly, but that was it. His shop was a big, black financial hole, and all the money he's earned from these records just went into that black hole. So he didn't afford to print more copies, even though the demand was there, even though the demand was actually quite significant. So throughout 1992 the album came out in... I think maybe in February or maybe March 1992, and was quickly sold out. And the rest of that time I spent wondering what was going on. And sometimes I went over there, To see what was going on, you know, to check what is he actually doing, to, you know, make sure that he can print more records and such. And he was just sitting on his behind doing nothing. And even when he had orders for music that he sold in his shop, he was unable to move his butt from the chair to the post office because he didn't have a car. So I had driven from Bergen to Oslo to see what was going on. And I had to drive him to the postal office so that he could actually send the things that people ordered from him. Yes, he was that incompetent, that lazy and that useless. But my patience had its limits. So when I actually made and recorded four albums in one year in 1992, when I was 19, and he only managed to print one of them in about 1,000 copies, and it sold out quickly, and he never managed to reprint them, I figured out, you know, why don't do it yourself, Vrag? So I did. I started my own record company, "Cymophane Productions". I figured, you know, I'm going to release my own music. But I hadn't given up completely yet. And in January 1993 I talked to him on the phone, and we agreed that I should do something for a journalist in Bergen. And I made this insane interview. Everything was complete nonsense, and the journalist exaggerated everything. And when he called me back up to read up what he had planned to print, I told him "this is just complete nonsense, "that is not what I said, this is misunderstood, this is twisted" and so forth. So I said, no, you're not allowed to print this. Hung up the phone, and I was arrested. He had called on the cops. And I was held in prison for three weeks. And when I was presented to the court,^[4] I put on a Venom T-shirt, because that was the image on his shop, on the front door. And the whole purpose of the interview had been to promote his shop.^[5] And my motivation was, of course, to help him get the business going so that he could print more records. I had a Venom shirt only because I SOLD them! And his response was to close the shop because he got too much uncomfortable attention. And the reason why so many others too started to dislike him for real and understood that he was a fraud at the time was not just that fact that he, you know, back talked pretty much everybody. But when this happened, he not only closed his shop, he also put on a white sweatshirt and gave it an interview to the newspapers, where he apologized for every discomfort the black metal scene had caused to, you know, the Norwegian population. Nobody in the black metal scene wanted to apologize for anything.^[6] They stood for what they believed in. So he betrayed the whole scene. Everybody disliked him. He became a joke. Nobody wanted anything to do with him anymore. And he had been like the big guy in the scene that everybody looked up to. He had a record company and Mayhem guitarist and everything. And he just dropped like this, right? And what do you think happened? Well, he blamed me. Not because I had done anything really against him, but because the things I had done made him expose himself. So whilst I was over there in Bergen, not wanting anything to do with him anymore and ignoring him, he was plotting against me. He ordered a stun gun from the USA and planned to knock me out, tie me up to a tree in the forest and torture me to death whilst filming it. So if you ever wondered why he ended up being killed, I think you might well have the reason for it right here.

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1. Euronymous and me.
2. Harald of Immortal took all these photos
3. They were taken in a bunker located right here.
4. In the meanwhile he printed the "interview" that he had manipulated
5. I never liked or listened to Venom. Venom sucks.
6. And what right did HE have to apologize on their behalf!?